Table II. Lateral pseudopod formation by AX2 wild-type and LimD– cells crawling in buffer or in a spatial gradient of cAMP.
Cell type | Number of cells | 0–2 lateral pseudopods per 10 min (%) | 3–5 lateral pseudopods per 10 min (%) | >5 lateral pseudopods per 10 min (%) | Average frequency of lateral pseudopods per cell per 10 min | |
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Buffer | AX2 | 28 | 15 | 53 | 30 | 5.3 |
LimD– | 23 | 5 | 60 | 34 | 4.9 | |
Gradient | AX2 | 22 | 81 | 18 | – | 1.45 |
LimD– | 25 | 40 | 60 | – | 2.7 |
Images were taken at 20× magnification every 30 s. In all cases cells were analyzed for 10 min. A χ2 test was performed between AX2 and LimD– cells on the combined data of the three categories of lateral pseudopods formed. The difference between AX2 and LimD– in the cAMP gradient was found to be highly significant (1 × 10–3).